Did every other car in your highschool parking lot look like this?
Posted by Verbull710@reddit | Xennials | View on Reddit | 82 comments
So many guys in highschool had civics and the like with the wheels sticking out. Saw one of these in person earlier today and my mind was blown, taken back to the nineteen hundreds
HighSeasArchivist@reddit
Not a single one, no.
spuldup@reddit
Without the spacers I'd say that is a cool car, today.
AmputeeHandModel@reddit
Nope.
*High school, two words.
LarryGoldwater@reddit
In Arizona they were lifted. AZ really got in early to lifted vehicles. What with all the rocks in the desert where we would go party. That's "metro" north Scottsdale today.
S_A_R_K@reddit
Had a fair amount of lowered mini trucks at my HS
Verbull710@reddit (OP)
That sounds hilarious, gonna look it up
ONROSREPUS@reddit
I never seen one of these in real life. Not a midwest look.
elphaba00@reddit
I grew up in the Midwest. An S-10 was way too common. Extra points if you got the extended cab that was about a foot in width.
Negative-Wrap95@reddit
Nope. Mostly earlier 80s domestic shitboxes.
No lowered cars either. Snow and BFE roads.
Ok_Ball_788@reddit
I had a lowrider hatchback Civic, and my alarm key fob battery died, so I let it go for the night. I woke up to find the car stolen, and my insurance had just lapsed because my roommate moved out and didn't pay his share of the rent. It was a cruel, cruel summer.
DrMcJedi@reddit
Only a couple as cool as this, but lots of Pontiac GrandAm/Prix, Chevy Cavalier/Nova/Monte Carlo, Ford Escort/Taurus galore, and my ride of choice at the time…the mighty Dodge Caravan.
SailNW@reddit
I went to a rich kid school. Parking lot was full of BMW, Mercedes, new VW bugs. I was happy with my 1990 Camry.
_plays_in_traffic_@reddit
no, but it had a couple lowrider trucks and some other stuff
DarksunDaFirst@reddit
Some, but most of them were beater trucks with fresh mud on them and back racks.
TheJokersWild53@reddit
I had a car bra and headlight covers on my 94 eclipse
ImaginationDeep7650@reddit
Same but a 93! Haha miss that thing!
the_ballmer_peak@reddit
Those 90-94 first generation eclipses came in awd turbo. I had friends working on those things well into the 2000s. The transmissions broke all the time and the block wouldn't last more than 100k miles, but you could get build an 11 second car for under 5 grand, including the price of the car.
I had second generation, '98, which was basically the same car but a lot prettier. They stopped making them in '99
Ok-Brick6831@reddit
Yeah, but they also had those goofy whisker looking curb feelers which this specimen of that era is missing.
Me personally, I had a lowered 93 Saturn SL2. Funny to think of all the stupid shit I did to that car trying to make it get up and go faster than the factory 140hp allowed.
marcos_MN@reddit
I live in Minnesota. It was mostly trucks and SUV’s, spaced out by Accords, Civics, and Carolas
Lucky_Louch@reddit
I moved to ME in 9th grade and there were mostly trucks in the parking lot. I had a 1992 Corisca with 2 15 inch kicker soloberics in that sonovabitch.
w0rsh1pm3owo@reddit
[2] I knew a few guys who had cars low n slow, but they were mostly Impalas and Cutlasses
AlienDelarge@reddit
No, not a single one. Lots of old pickups though.
ECNV1978@reddit
I went to a private HS with really wealthy students, so literally every car in the lot was a BMW or Mercedes. I think maybe a few kids had “normal” cars that weren’t brand new but most families had serious $$$.
feldomatic@reddit
Nah I grew up in one of the larger cities in Kentucky...
So it was half rusted out F-150s and half this.
twopacktuesday@reddit
Mostly $500 cars with $5,000 stereo systems
SquirrelyMcNutz@reddit
Needs the $5k stereo that fills the trunk with bass-heavy speakers.
jackfaire@reddit
I don't remember honestly. I didn't care about driving or cars at the time so never paid much attention to what people were driving. My older brother had a CRX though. That I remember.
genesimmonstongue415@reddit
These were so much better than today's douchey SUVs. "I need more room!" Most owners use em to ... transport groceries.😑
OllieFromCairo@reddit
I grew up in metro Detroit and went to a public school, so there were very few foreign cars in our lot.
There were a lot of Escorts, Rangers, light trucks and old Chryslers
mickeltee@reddit
I lived in a GM town so it was a ton of Cavaliers and S10s. The rich kids had blazers.
whyisthissticky@reddit
Cavaliers were every other car in my high school. I had 4 friends with red ones.
absentlyric@reddit
I grew up in and still live in a GM town, I had a 1997 Pontiac Sunfire GT stick shift, sunroof I got for $2500 at the time, I drove that from senior year of high school up until 2015, over 300k miles on it.
I think it's funny Reddit loves bashing American cars, but most people I knew around here were able to get plenty of milage out of theirs. I still see old Grand Ams and Impalas on the road in my hood.
odin_the_wiggler@reddit
I refuse to believe any Sunfire has ever made it to 300k miles.
odin_the_wiggler@reddit
All S-10s and Pontiacs.
Tinyhulk27@reddit
Remember the cutlass.
I'm pretty sure by law every family had to own an Olds Cutlass in some shape or form.
Shit I still got a 92 cutlass ciera wagon in the garage I should get rid of... But where else you gonna find a car the size of a Toyota Camry that seats 8 people legally.
mickeltee@reddit
Absolutely! We had a Ciera wagon too. That thing was a tank.
Mudcreek47@reddit
My first car was a cherry red 92 Cavalier with the gray interior. I loved that car so much. It might've been able to get up to 85mph if you floored it on the interstate.
MCA2142@reddit
Grew up in a rural town. Everything in the parking lot was an old truck with a gun rack against the rear window.
username32768@reddit
In a 100 year's time that photo of the Civic will be their equivalent of steam punk.
hurdeehurr@reddit
Not quite but close. Less lowrider wheels and more street racer wannabe look.
nneighbour@reddit
I know of one student who drove. Everyone else took public transit or walked to school.
MidgarZanarkand@reddit
I live in the California desert and my daughters high school has quite a few cars that look like this. Makes me think that the kids are indeed alright.
absentlyric@reddit
Curious where you're from OP, because in Michigan I have never ever seen this phenomena in the 90s or even 00s.
Red_Car_Singer@reddit
At least one. Went for a school event with the driver and not only did we get pulled over by a cop, his transmission fell out and I ended up getting a lift home in the back of a cop car. Not the same cop by the way.
Ltimbo@reddit
What was the point of the bra? I never figured that out.
1radgirl@reddit
Mostly giant lifted trucks at my school. If it couldn't pull a horse trailer, then it wasn't any good. I drove an SUV and was accused of being a "city wuss". 😂
cashews_clay15@reddit
Most of the ones at my school were from the 70’s. I don’t know if that was a style choice or affordability.
CasualEveryday@reddit
Yeah, there were a few rich kids with newer cars. That one girl who got a new beetle for her 16th birthday.
JonnyQuest1981@reddit
I grew up blue collar in a very white collar suburb. My high school parking lot was filled with Firebirds, Mustangs, Eagle Talons, Eclipses, Camaroes, and Corvettes. Bunch of kids with rich daddies who would buy them whatever two door they wanted. Even the less wealthy kids had really nice, brand new rides.
Kahnza@reddit
No it was pickups with gun racks, and shitty clapped out cars that they race.
Spare_Independence19@reddit
I lived in the Midwest near Chicago and yes this was what most kids were trying to get they're cars to look like. I had a 81 big block camero with t tops , jet black, I was indeed the shiz
GarblingCumfarts@reddit
There were absolutely 0 cars at my high school like this.
noonesaidityet@reddit
No. More like Buicks, Pontiacs, and various rusty pickups.
The_Best_Yak_Ever@reddit
Yep. I went to school in a wealthy area, and I remember after the Fast and the Furious came out, we had so many early nineties civics with a fart muffler, and maybe a new air filter or some other nonsense. And the guys who drove them thought they were so the shit.
I'll never forget this one guy, a year behind me, had this 1990 Civic that he had some cheap new parts, and was trying to possess a girl who had quite reasonably asked, "but why spend that on an economy car?"
"I just love feelin' the speed of performance parts."
I chortled at that. I remember when this guy wanted to race my buddy's 80's Chevy s10. What he didn't appreciate was that my guy had been working on engines since he was 5 or 6. I'd ridden in that truck, which he called "squirrely."
He had some ungodly engine he had built in that light little truck with some 600 HP and who knows how much torque. To say he put the smoke job on that stupid little civic is an understatement.
The "speed of performance parts" was nothing compared to legit American muscle. During the late 90's and early 2000's there were a lot of stories like that at my upper middle to fairly wealthy class body at my high school.
What a time to be alive haha
greaterwhiterwookiee@reddit
Russian mafia at my school/suburbs literally stole every Honda. We were all told NOT to buy them by our parent’s insurance companies.
There was also a WIDE gap where I grew up. Lots of really rich kids and lots of really poor kids. So it was either brand new Nissan trucks or hand me down Lexus’ Acuras and Audis, or the kids like me who found whatever ran for under $1000 and drove it until it died and found the next thing.
Dodge Omni, Pontiac Bonneville, Chevy Celebrity, Chrysler minivans (the square ones). That’s what we had
ThreeSixMafs@reddit
Not every car was slammed but yeah, most of us were still driving asian commuters from the late 80s/early 90s. Not me. I had a 2000 camaro in high school. But I wanted a tiny ricer that got good gas mileage instead of course.
C_est_la_vie9707@reddit
A lot of that, rusted farm trucks, and this in the rural Midwest
toughheartskill@reddit
ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit
Dude I had an’84 Supra
Pankosmanko@reddit
lol I drove a lowered 94 Accord coupe with a candy purple paint job, 14 inch rims, and underglow lights that pulsed in time with the subwoofer hits.
ZaphodBeeblebrahx@reddit
Fuck yes
emptybeetoo@reddit
I didn’t see a lot of cars like this, but I do remember a student with a low-ride car getting stuck on the speed bumps in front of my school, so that was fun to watch
sageamericanidiot@reddit
This was my cousin. So embarrassing to have to call my dad to help us.
Verbull710@reddit (OP)
That was daily entertainment lol
sageamericanidiot@reddit
A lot of kids had brand new civics and Sentras, a lot of low rider trucks too. I went to a high school in an affluent area and many kids were given their parents luxury cars when they upgraded. It wasn't uncommon to have juniors and seniors rolling up in 2-4 year old BMW, Mercedes, and Lexus. Meanwhile, I was happy and living my best life driving a 60s era VW bug that my uncle picked up for $500 and fixed up.
jesusmansuperpowers@reddit
Pretty much. Not the daytons though, snow makes those extra stupid
yamahowzer@reddit
Lot of 60-70s muscle cars, low riders and trucks... Plus some 'souped up' 4 bangers like the one pictures for flavor. Small town in the mountain West about an hour from a proper city.
PlatypusDependent271@reddit
There were a few we also had classic beat up muscle cars and beat up pick up trucks also a few small lowrider pickups as well.
Verbull710@reddit (OP)
I'm from a working class commuter town in Oregon fwiw
Rich kids had acuras and a few bmw, Neon's were new and there were a lot of those as well
zoominzacks@reddit
Nope. Mostly beater cars and trucks. But it was also the type of school where on the last day of the year the farm kids would drive their tractors
Obsidianrunner@reddit
Actually only one person in my HS had a car like this. I went to a school on the “country” side of town. Mostly old Chevy or Ford trucks in my HS parking lot. I had a 95 Civic hatchback. Loved that car!
Exciting-Argument-67@reddit
No. In my area there were a lot of Buicks, station wagons, and other cars that kids got when Grandma finally stopped driving.
Healthy-Neat-2989@reddit
Not a single one.
urfriendflicka@reddit
No. Most kids had new cars-- not necessarily luxury, toyotas and nissans were pretty common. I drove an 88 Nissan sentra and there were only a handful of us who had ikd hand me down cars from family or had to buy their own. I broke up with a boyfriend bc he got his license in 99, but his parents bought him a 98 and he pitched a fit then purposely totaled it to get a new one. And he wasn't the only one totalling their vehicles to get a new one. The concept of a beater as a new car waa foreign in my town.
The car every one thought was the coolest was that one kid's new beetle his parents gave him as soon as it came out. The kid who bragged the most about his new car was the vice principal's son who was given a brand new dodge ram.
elektrik_noise@reddit
2 of my friends had Chevy Cavaliers. They were so junked up we'd get high and crash them into cement light poles in diner parking lots (bc we were going to drink coffee and smoke cigs all night). Good times.
FoppyRETURNS@reddit
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manthursaday@reddit
No I went to a nice high school in a wealthy suburb. We didn't have trash like that. Yes some kids had civics not just plain old stock civics. But there were more accords than civics. Also lots of SUVs and some trucks.
_MadGasser@reddit
No
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AndrewInMN@reddit
I don’t think anyone had anything like that where I grew up in the 90s. Lots of older cars and pickups. A couple kids had wealthier parents and had a bit nicer cars, but nothing crazy. My younger brother had a civic with a bunch of custom stuff done to it around the time he finished high school, but that was 2002. The closest I remember to anything like your picture was a dude in my class with his third gen red Mustang convertible. I wasn’t friends with him so I don’t know the specs but I think it had the 5.0 V8 and he had wide tires on it. By all accounts it was a piece of shit and he had a lot of issues with it, but it looked nice at the time.
MiniRems@reddit
A car bra and only one color that wasn't rust? That's way too fancy for my school.